Benchmarks: Productivity
WinBench 99 is a subsystem-level benchmark that measures the
performance of a PC's graphics, disk, and video subsystems in a Windows environment.
The benchmark consists of four tests; Business Disk, High end Disk, Business Graphics
and High end Graphics. We put each of the notebooks through the
same series of tests while in mobile mode.
| WinBench 99 Ver1.2 - Tested on DC power
(Battery) |
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| WinBench99 1.2 - Battery Tests |
| Notebook |
Business Desk |
High-end Disk |
Business Graphics |
High-end Graphics |
| NEC Versa UltraLite |
1590 |
6370 |
42.1 |
224 |
| ACER Travelmate 739TLV |
2020 |
7400 |
53.8 |
340 |
In each of the WinBench99 benchmarks the 3.3lb
NEC UltraLite came in below that of the 7lb Acer 739TLV. It is important to
note that while the Acer system was effectively running at 700MHz, the difference in
benchmarks scores is being used to illustrate the relative performance capabilities
of the NEC subnotebook against a typical full-size notebook.
Content Creation
Winstone 2001
Content Creation Winstone 2001
benchmarks a system by running multiple windows-based applications as a regular
user might. While there are six applications which form the basis of this
benchmark, the entire session is a single test, returning a single result.
Content Creation runs Adobe Photoshop 5.5, Adobe Premiere 5.1, Macromedia
Director 8.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver 3.0, Netscape Navigator 4.73 and Sonic
Foundry Sound Forge 4.5 through a series of scripted activities that make the
computer actually work.
| Content Creation Winstone 2001 1.0.1 - Battery Tests |
| Notebook |
Content Creation |
Test1 |
Test2 |
| NEC Versa UltraLite |
15 |
15.4 |
15 |
| Acer Travelmate 739 TLV |
26.9 |
24.2 |
26.9 |
The interesting point to take note of with this series of Content Creation
benchmarks is that results for the NEC UltraLite go down slightly. The Acer notebook on the other hand exhibits a slightly better
run at the benchmark the second time around.
Business Winstone 2001
Business Winstone 2001 as
a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall
performance when running Norton Antivirus 2000, WinZip
7.0, Microsoft FrontPage 2000, Lotus Notes R5, Microsoft Access 2000, Microsoft Excel 2000, Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, Microsoft Project 98, Microsoft Word 2000, and Netscape Communicator 4.73. Business Winstone runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and
uses the time the computer takes to complete those activities to produce its
performance scores.
| Business Winstone 2001 1.0.1 - Battery Tests |
| Notebook |
Business Winstone |
| NEC Versa UltraLite |
10.3 |
| Acer Travelmate 739 TLV |
20.9 |
In this set of benchmarks that run day to day business
applications in a timed fashion, the NEC UltraLite comes in only slightly above
that of the base machine used as the reference point for the benchmarks
themselves.
